braintree-validation

Braintree's HostedFields enable you to easily achieve Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. One disadvantage, though, is that front-end validation libraries won't work with HostedFields, forcing you to roll your own validation using the Braintree JavaScript SDK. That's where braintree-validation comes in: it's an adapter enabling use of the venerable jQuery Validation plugin on the <form> containing your hosted fields. braintree-validation is also not limited to HostedFields; all other fields in your form will be validated as though you had normally applied the jQuery validation plugin.

Check it out in action at https://codepen.io/nb1987/pen/qmOqpX

Note: If you have very particular validation requirements and want to get your hands dirty, the library also provides convenience methods for retrieving the Braintree field name (or Braintree field) from the <iframe>. See details in the Documentation section.

Getting Started

Downloading the prebuilt files

Downloading the latest changes

Including it on your page

1. Include jQuery, the jQuery validation plugin, the Braintree SDK's client component, the Braintee SDK's hosted-fields component, and braintree-validation on a page.
2. Create a Braintree client instance.
3. Create a Braintree HostedFields instance.
4. On the braintree.hostedFields object, call the validate() method, passing to it the Braintree HostedFields instance and any options you would pass to the jQuery validation plugin.

A bare-bones example:

	<form>
		<div class="form-control" id="card-number"></div>
		<div class="form-control" id="cvv"></div>
		<div class="form-control" id="expiration-month"></div>
		<div class="form-control" id="expiration-year"></div>
		<div class="form-control" id="postal-code"></div>
	</form>
	<script src="jquery.js"></script>
	<script src="jquery.validate.js"></script>
	<script src="https://js.braintreegateway.com/web/3.12.1/js/client.js"></script>
	<script src="https://js.braintreegateway.com/web/3.12.1/js/hosted-fields.js"></script>
	<script src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nb1987/braintree-validation/master/src/core.js"></script>
	<script>
		braintree.client.create({
			authorization: 'YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_KEY_HERE'
		}, function (err, clientInstance) {
			braintree.hostedFields.create({
				client: clientInstance,
				fields: {
					number: { selector: '#card-number' },
					cvv: { selector: '#cvv' },
					expirationMonth: { selector: '#expiration-month' },
					expirationYear: { selector: '#expiration-year' },
					postalCode: { selector: '#postal-code' }
				}
			}, function (err, hostedFieldsInstance) {
				braintree.hostedFields.validate(hostedFieldsInstance, {debug: true});
			});
		});
	</script>

Running the demo

Documentation

Overview

The most important thing to be aware of is that many options for $.validate() accept callbacks, and those callbacks often contain as a parameter the element being validated. In the case of Braintree hosted fields, this element is not the hosted field, but instead the <iframe> that contains the hosted field. This library exposes two of its own convenience methods for retrieving either the Braintree HostedField object related to the containing <iframe> or the name of that property.

rules and messages

You can pass in whatever rules and messages that you'd like; braintree-validation will add its own rules and messages:

rules: {
	"braintree-hosted-field-number": {
		"braintree-hosted-field-number-isRequired": true,
		"braintree-hosted-field-number-isValid": true
	},
	"braintree-hosted-field-cvv": {
		"braintree-hosted-field-cvv-isRequired": true,
		"braintree-hosted-field-cvv-isValid": true
	},
	"braintree-hosted-field-expirationMonth": {
		"braintree-hosted-field-expirationMonth-isRequired": true,
		"braintree-hosted-field-expirationMonth-isValid": true
	},
	"braintree-hosted-field-expirationYear": {
		"braintree-hosted-field-expirationYear-isRequired": true,
		"braintree-hosted-field-expirationYear-isValid": true
	},
	"braintree-hosted-field-postalCode": {
		"braintree-hosted-field-postalCode-isRequired": true,
		"braintree-hosted-field-postalCode-isValid": true
	}
},
messages: {
	"braintree-hosted-field-number": {
		"braintree-hosted-field-number-isRequired": "Card number is required.",
		"braintree-hosted-field-number-isValid": "Please enter a valid card number."
	},
	"braintree-hosted-field-cvv": {
		"braintree-hosted-field-cvv-isRequired": "CVV is required.",
		"braintree-hosted-field-cvv-isValid": "Please enter a valid CVV."
	},
	"braintree-hosted-field-expirationMonth": {
		"braintree-hosted-field-expirationMonth-isRequired": "Expiration month is required.",
		"braintree-hosted-field-expirationMonth-isValid": "Please enter a valid expiration month."
	},
	"braintree-hosted-field-expirationYear": {
		"braintree-hosted-field-expirationYear-isRequired": "Expiration year is required.",
		"braintree-hosted-field-expirationYear-isValid": "Please enter a valid expiration year."
	},
	"braintree-hosted-field-postalCode": {
		"braintree-hosted-field-postalCode-isRequired": "Postal code is required.",
		"braintree-hosted-field-postalCode-isValid": "Please enter a valid postal code."
	}
}

You can override these as desired by passing into the options your own rule(s) and/or message(s) of the same name(s).

Overrides

License

Copyright © Nick Bagnall

Licensed under the MIT license.